Postbacks in fbdirect

[anton-gr]

Hi,

I'm playing around with the sample fbdirect and it works fine with my Facebook bot with single text as the request.
But when I'm trying to send postback with payload like:

#me
{
  "postback": {
    "payload": "Some payload"
  }
}

#bot
Hi

my webhook receives no requests.
Could you please assist how to send postbacks in fbdirect mode?

Thanks

Log:
info login Logging in...
info login Logged in
info login Request to reconnect
info login Request to pull 1
info login Request to pull 2
info login Request to thread_sync
info login Done logging in.
botium-FbContainer logging into facebook ready +4s
testmybot-main running testcase 1 simplecalc +5s
botium-Convo simplecalc/Line 10: user says ConvoStep {
botium-Convo sender: 'me',
botium-Convo channel: null,
botium-Convo messageText: undefined,
botium-Convo sourceData: { postback: { payload: 'Some payload' } },
botium-Convo stepTag: 'Line 10',
botium-Convo not: false } +0ms
botium-Convo simplecalc wait for bot null +1ms
verb parseAndCheckLogin for (;;); {"t":"lb","lb_info":{"sticky":"116","pool":"frc3c09_chat-proxy"}}
info listen Got answer in 1086
verb parseAndCheckLogin for (;;); {"t":"msg","seq":2,"u":100022186592372,"ms":[{"type":"qprimer","made":"1528979655753"},{"type":"chatproxy-presence","buddyList":{"100003867865366":{"lat":1528975383},"633289663":{"lat":1528978677,"p":0,"vc":74},"100000487878525":{"lat":1528964405},"100000206799455":{"lat":1528978191},"100010071075103":{"lat":1528880316},"100001539813339":{"lat":1528979480,"p":2,"vc":0},"1614563253":{"lat":1528976904},"100001634492156":{"lat":1528975456},"100007152941774":{"lat":1528957755},"100023696302865":{"lat":1528976233},"1350133715":{"lat":1528952363},"100001586754582":{"lat":1528976173,"p":0,"vc":74},"100008372501565":{"lat":1528895349},"100001867372118":{"lat":1528951938},"100008021356269":{"lat":1528973417},"100015217624961":{"lat":1528965640},"100009864851286":{"lat":-1},"100000332668840":{"lat":-1},"1412043987":{"lat":1528977813},"100001452100429":{"lat":1528922061},"100001654392863":{"lat":1528830352},"100002125018927":{"lat":1528969407}},"userIsIdle":false,"chatNotif":0,"gamers":[]}]}
info listen Got answer in 288
verb parseAndCheckLogin for (;;); {"t":"heartbeat"}
verb parseAndCheckLogin
info listen Got answer in 50493
botium-BaseContainer WaitBotSays error Error: Queue.pop timeout after 60000

[sarjit07]

Facing the same issue. @codeforequity-at please suggest some fix.

[codeforequity-at]

The "fbdirect" connector is extremly limited - it is based on a library which mimicks the communication done with the facebook messenger web application and is not officially supported by Facebook.
Things like postbacks and most kind of attachments currently cannot be handled with it (and probably never will).

I recommend switching to another connector type - depending on how your chatbot has been developed, there are other test automation options for sure.

[codeforequity-at]

By the way, we are currently working an integrating Botium with Selenium and Appium (https://github.com/codeforequity-at/botium-connector-webdriverio) - I think for the use cases you mentioned above, this would be the better approach.